I am passionate because when I was in the 10th grade in September 2019, my father told me that no longer I could go to school and come home after school ends at 2:30, he told me that I had no choice but to go to an afterschool program, to further enhance my learning. At first, I was upset with this & displeased, but then I stumbled upon a club led by a teacher in the school for videography, in which we worked with cameras and sets in the school, and outside nearby the school to capture scenes to create films. It sounded interesting to me, and I decided that I would enter the club.I ended up playing a minor role in a film being shot for the halloween season with club members, and it was my first ever taste of doing acting. I had to run in a gym from a killer who was secretly out for everyone, taking us all out one by one. The film actually ended up being not allowed to be publicly shown to the school even though it was finished due to it being considered by the school as too graphic, which I felt it wasn't really graphic and so didn't our club members either, but It was so fun lining up with other people and standing in specific spots, and being instructed but to also improvise what we could add to scenes that our director named Dr.Mike was asking for. I initially thought having to do afterschool would be a pain to deal with, but when the club met on Tuesdays & Thursdays, those were my favorite days because of how fun it was to be in the club. After the halloween film, we took a break for the winter season & we were going to return in March to start a romantic comedy film, but unfortunately, came a large problem. The COVID-19 Pandemic hit hard in 2020, and schools across the nation went remote causing major disruptions in learning, and my school transitioned to remote learning at home completely for 2020, and partially in 2021, and that meant I couldn't go to my club anymore. I even emailed my teacher in 2021 when school partially reopened for most days of the week if the club could be brought back, alas unfortunately Dr. Mike couldn't bring it back. Then began the 2021- 2022 year in high school, which would be my final year as a senior. The club still didn't return, but I decided from how I positively recalled my experience with the club that I would look for a college in NYC that offered a Theatre Major, and make it my career as before I went to that acting club, I didn't know what I wanted as a career in my life, but the club changed everything. I had troubles finding a college that didn't require an audition because even though I had an interest for acting, most colleges required me to pass an audition requiring a monologue, but I wasn't specialized enough in acting to prepare something like this well. Fortunately, I came across the College of Mount Saint Vincent, which offered Theatre as a major, and I stumbled upon them at a college fair in my high school, and they were the only college that offered Theatre as a major & without the need for auditioning, which had me sold. Taking my desire to continue acting from a hobby to a potential career out of interest for it, I then enrolled & have started my freshman journey beginning September 2022.